Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In this paper, I propose to examine some of the ways in which \nPlato’s elaboration of transcendent love penetrated and \ninfluenced English Renaissance poetry, specifically Edmund \nSpenser’s, and to point out how certain accretions from \nRenaissance Neoplatonism may be said to have filtered into a \nspecific literary expression, the ‘Hymne’. I shall attempt to offer a \nglimpse into the artistry of a poet who met the considerable \nchallenge of encompassing philosophical doctrines into poetic \nstructures and to show how the remarkable blend of apparently \ndivergent beliefs, as presented by ancient and modern schools \nof thought, provided a rich array of ideas that could be exploited \nin poetical terms.
Author: Sira Dambe
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2139050355